From Clair Thompson, Healthy Community Team Emotional wellbeing is closely correlated with good mental health. It is often not an easy topic to start discussing. A safe approach to starting to talk about emotional wellbeing and mental health is listening to a conversation about it. Live Algoma is inviting you to community conversation about emotional […]

From Claire Thompson, Healthy Community Team The Emotional Well-Being workgroup is now recruiting volunteer trainers to move our suicide prevention project to the next level. We are planning to do some personal outreach to people we know are interested. We are also opening it up to general applications from the community to see who might […]

We will be receiving our Culture of Health Prize on October 11, 2017 in Princeton, New Jersey. Since we couldn’t take all of you with us, we wanted to let you know the event is going to be podcast over the internet. The link is http://www.rwjf.org/prize and will be live at 11:00AM Central Time (Noon Eastern). […]

Algoma, Wisconsin Receives RWJF Culture of Health Prize For Efforts to Improve Health and Well-Being Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Recognizes Algoma, Wisconsin for its shared commitment among all sectors—from the school district to health providers to local businesses—to help all residents thrive. Algoma, Wisconsin (September 19, 2017) Algoma is one of eight winners of the 2017 […]

Support the Art Smart Lounge DonorsChoose.org has helped over 17 million students get more out of their education. Let’s make sure Algoma’s learners get in on the action! Algoma Middle High School art students are invested in Improvement Science, discourse, and the well-being that art can foster! Visit our classroom page to learn more about our current project, […]

Article received from Teal Van Lanen Prior to my first group exercise class at ACWC, I dropped in on a Monday morning to participate in a “Just Dance” class. Teal VanLanen, Algoma School District, had said the class was open to anyone, so I really had no idea of what to expect. The multi-purpose room […]

Make your wishes known about what is important for the City of Algoma to do in the next 10-20 years. Once the Comprehensive Plan is completed, the City will use it as a guiding document against which policies, planning and activities will be measured. Voice your perspective and make democracy work to make Algoma a […]

Live Algoma Tells Its Story On A New Link As part of our efforts to help achieve 100 Million healthier lives, along with our sister communities, we have been asked to share our story. You can view our story by using this link. https://insight.livestories.com/s/v2/live-healthy-live-well-live-algoma/60209d9e-c08d-4c62-9b70-bd19fca29fc1. Take the time to visit the website and experience our story though […]

The Judges are Coming! Wednesday and Thursday, April 12th and 13th, the judges for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize will be visiting Algoma to see our Bright Spots and talk to Live Algoma Leadership and community members. To earn The Culture of Health Prize communities have to demonstrate how they excel in […]

Kewaunee County Farmer’s Market is moving to Downtown Algoma. After 3 years of a successful market out at the Flying Pig, the Sunday Kewaunee County Farmer’s Market is moving to downtown Algoma. The Rural Enterprise Network (REN) has helped the Algoma Chamber of Commerce to make the transition from the former Flying Pig location to […]